Sillybean

May 5, 2004

Dishonest Dubya, and others

Dishonest Dubya Lying Action Figure. Complete with remote control. Change his outfits or make him repeat some of his more interesting public statements.

Betty Bowers’s Gift Shop. Don’t change horsemen in the middle of an apocalypse.

And don’t miss the MIT Jack Valenti interview where he proves that he’s completely clueless about the technologies he’s spent so much time trying to outlaw.

8:54 am · Politics 1 comment

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  1. When does the rest of the set come out? There should be fourty-two other lying president action figures.

    Posted by Scott Janssens on May 6th, 2004 at 2:23 pm

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